Thanks to Anton Angelo for a couple more good challenges we get back when we ask people about depositing their research in their institutional repository: I already put it up on Arxiv? This is just wasted effort! I’ve been thinking about this one for a few days and have had similar queries here: why don’t […]
Knowledge to broadcast: research archiving blog
Why not deposit Open Access?
I hear concerns about depositing publications in our Open Access repository: Leicester Research Archive and think we need to address them. Some I think are good reasons not to simply go with Open Access. With many others I’m aiming for engagement and probably reassurance and encouragement rather than agreeing with barriers. As ever, I could […]
Some new books on Research Data Management
There have been a few upcoming books mentioned recently on the Research Data Management discussion list: Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice by Louise Corti, Veerle Van den Eynden Libby Bishop and Matthew Woollard of University of Essex published by Sage in March 2014. Delivering Research Data Management Services: Fundamentals of good practice by Graham Pryor, Sarah Jones and Angus […]
Making Data Discoverable
On Friday 25th October 2013 I attended a workshop on Making Data Discoverable put on by Data.ac.uk who work on linked open data development for academia. The session was held at the very shiny offices of the Open Data Institute (ODI) in the City in London. There were few of us participants and several presenters from University of Southampton […]
Trust and Digital Preservation
On 4th June 2013 I attended the first day of Trust and Digital Preservation organised by the Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network (APARSEN) at the elegant library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. We were welcomed by William Kilbride, Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and given an Introduction to the […]
Why deposit your research in LRA
This morning I helped present a short session in the library and on-line as part of our Research elevenses sessions on Managing your research output: Making your publications available through the Leicester Research Archive. A recording will be available soon. My part was on why a researcher might want to deposit their research in our archive. I collected some […]
Why Green Open Access?
I’m interested in promoting open access to research and will help present next week’s Research elevenses half hour talk on Making your publications available through the Leicester Research Archive. I’m starting with Why Green Open Access? I expect to think on this topic and expand in the future on it. Eprints: Open Access has some useful pointers: Mandates and Metrics: How Open […]
Symplectic 5th user conference
On 28 May 2013 I went to the 5th of Symplectic’s user conferences at Woburn House in London. We use their Elements product for our Integrated Research Information System (IRIS): for the University of Leicester’s internal research data management. Elements sits connected to many sources of publication information and presents researchers with an online CV of their publications and links […]
Linking datasets and articles for publication
On 30 April 2013 I attended Linking datasets and articles for publication – cross-linking and workflows at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the countryside in Oxfordshire. I used to live in High Wycombe and hadn’t seen the soaring Red Kite birds for years so I enjoyed the trip to the lab. (Thanks to Chris Frewin for the picture) […]
Making a start
I’m just getting started in my new job as manager of Leicester Research Archive. I plan to use this blog as a companion as I learn about digital preservation, the open access political landscape and the workflows and technologies of open access archiving of research publications and in the future the data behind the publications. […]
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